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Allen Jackson - Jesus' Victory (Part 2)

April 8, 2026 | 27:29

Allen Jackson - Jesus' Victory (Part 2)
Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Jesus' Victory (Part 2) | April 8, 2026
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  • Allen jackson: you know, around the world people are searching
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  • For truth, and together we're doing our very best to help them
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  • Allen: if you'd say yes to the lord, i'm just gonna ask you to
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  • Stand real quickly.
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  • If you're in our building, whichever sanctuary, if you're
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  • At home, you can stand, we can see through those lenses.
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  • No, we can't.
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  • Look at this.
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  • Jesus had 11 and they changed the world.
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  • You all are gonna cause havoc.
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  • Wow, well, father, i thank you for your word, for its clarity.
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  • I believe that jesus was destined to change lives for
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  • Time and eternity.
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  • Lord, we're the beneficiaries of that, but i believe just as
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  • Certainly you've created us for your purposes and called us for
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  • Your purposes, and lord, for many reasons we hesitate or
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  • We're reluctant or we're not interested, but we come today to
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  • Say we're sorry for our ambivalence, lord, to say yes to
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  • You, to accept your invitations, to cooperate with them.
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  • Holy spirit, help us, give us understanding hearts.
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  • Give us the wisdom that will be needed for the moment that we're
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  • In, the courage that will be necessary, the determination.
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  • Help us to not grow weary with the assignment, but may we
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  • Overcome evil and not be overcome by it.
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  • I thank you for your people and i thank you for the
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  • Commissioning that begins today, or that we will celebrate the
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  • Outcomes in the days and the weeks and the months ahead, in
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  • Jesus's name, amen.
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  • Hallelujah, you may be seated.
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  • Now we're gonna have a miracle.
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  • I have about ten minutes and you have a library of scriptures.
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  • What i would like to do with you is walk through some of them,
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  • And for me, jesus's experience does not line up with what i
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  • Would imagine a god-directed destiny to be.
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  • I'm thinking if god calls me to something, it gives me clarity
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  • On an assignment which i believe jesus had, and jesus wasn't
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  • Disrupted by sin and some of the things that i'm thinking, well,
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  • This is gonna be, like, exciting.
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  • I mean, like, fun almost.
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  • Like, yeah, because my biggest complaint with the lord
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  • Consistently is going i didn't expect it to be like this, but
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  • My expectations oftentimes aren't derived from scripture.
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  • So, let's read just a little bit.
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  • I want you to see jesus at 12 years old.
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  • It's really the first glimpse we get into jesus at all between
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  • Those birth narratives and the trip to egypt, but we get a
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  • Little window, one slice, a little peek through a window
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  • When jesus is 12.
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  • He's gone to jerusalem with his family.
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  • He's old enough to go with them for one of the pilgrimage
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  • Feasts, and jesus stayed behind when they headed home.
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  • It's about a week's journey from nazareth to jerusalem, and mary
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  • And joseph get out of town a couple of days and jesus isn't
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  • With them, kids.
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  • So, they make the trip back to jerusalem and they're looking
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  • And it says, "everyone who heard jesus was amazed at his
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  • Understanding and his answers.
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  • When his parents saw him, they were astonished."
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  • They were astonished.
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  • You'd think it would be hard to astonish you if you've had an
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  • Immaculate conception, right?
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  • I mean, you probably think you're surprise proof if you had
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  • Shepherd show up babbling about angelic hosts and magi from the
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  • East and their elaborate gifts, and joseph has had multiple
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  • Dreams with directions about god's involvement.
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  • I'm thinking you're pretty hard to astonish, and mary and joseph
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  • Are astonished.
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  • "and his mother said to him, 'son, why have you treated us
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  • Like this?
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  • Your father and i have been anxiously searching for you.'"
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  • Mary had to speak because joseph was just gonna snatch him up,
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  • Living bible, but look at jesus's answer.
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  • "why were you searching for me?
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  • Didn't you know i had to be in my father's house?"
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  • What's the answer to that?
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  • No, they didn't know that at all.
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  • They didn't know that at all.
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  • Now, we need the rest of this because luke says it to us, he
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  • Says they didn't understand what he was saying to them.
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  • "and he went down to nazareth with them and he was obedient
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  • To them.
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  • But his mother treasured all these things in her heart.
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  • And jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with god
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  • And men."
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  • They're all running different races, aren't they?
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  • Mary's got a race to run, jesus has got a race to run, joe's got
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  • His own race to run.
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  • You know that story really well.
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  • I mean, you know how those all intertwine.
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  • Mary's treasuring these things in her heart.
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  • She doesn't understand everything that's unfolding.
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  • Folks, i don't understand everything that's unfolding.
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  • I'm pretty certain you don't understand everything
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  • That's unfolding.
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  • I promise you the people on tiktok and instagram, they don't
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  • Understand everything that's unfolding.
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  • They have a lot of confidence from the basement with
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  • Their keyboard.
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  • But jesus had a self-awareness that god had asked him to
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  • Do something.
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  • Mary understood god had asked her to do something.
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  • She said: i'll give birth to that child as you have said.
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  • She understood there was something unique.
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  • Joseph understood there was something unique.
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  • They're all running their races, but it isn't easy.
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  • They left their kids behind.
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  • I'm thinking you don't get the parenting award, right?
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  • You go to a party and you leave the kids.
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  • Jesus goes public at age 30, so we're gonna step ahead another
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  • 18 years.
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  • Matthew 3, "jesus came from galilee to the jordan to be
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  • Baptized by john.
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  • But john tried to deter him.
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  • John said, 'i need to be baptized by you, and you come
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  • To me.'"
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  • Jesus can't even get him to cooperate with baptism.
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  • Even his friends, people on his own team going, no, no, no,
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  • That's not right.
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  • "and jesus replied, 'let it be so now; it is proper for us to
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  • Do this to fulfill our righteousness.'
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  • John consented.
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  • As soon as jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water, and
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  • At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the spirit of
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  • God descending like a dove and lighting on him.
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  • And a voice from heaven said," "that's my boy, i love him and i
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  • Am really pleased with him."
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  • That's a good day.
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  • Imagine going to work tomorrow and everybody at work heard god
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  • Say, "that's my kid."
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  • Yeah, i mean, this is jesus's step into the public arena.
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  • Up until this point he has been private, but he's 30 years old
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  • And his message and his ministry is about to go public, and god
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  • Affirms it in a very, very dramatic way.
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  • All four gospels record the baptism of jesus and god's
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  • Response, and across all four gospels the group that is
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  • Identified as recognizing it is different, so it's a very
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  • Inclusive, widespread affirmation by god of jesus and
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  • That point in his life, which would be really good for any one
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  • Of us.
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  • Do you ever find the time when you're encouraged that you're on
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  • The right way?
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  • You know, it doesn't have to be a voice from heaven, just any
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  • Little thing that you go, "ah, that helps, thank you."
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  • Watch what's next.
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  • Matthew chapter 4, we just read his baptism in matthew 3.
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  • The very beginning of chapter 4, jesus was led by the spirit.
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  • "led by the spirit into the desert to be tempted by
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  • The devil."
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  • Does that sentence bother you at all?
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  • Led by the--do you have any imagination that you could be
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  • Spirit-led to a point of temptation?
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  • Oh, i thought i'd be spirit-led to church.
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  • Well, he could lead you to church, but then you have to
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  • Decide whether you're gonna honor him or you're gonna give
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  • In to temptation.
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  • Being led by the spirit does not preempt temptations.
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  • That's a very important piece to note, that you and i are gonna
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  • Have to be responsible for our thoughts and our choices.
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  • We can be spirit-directed, spirit-led, jesus is.
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  • God is so pleased with him he's announcing it for everybody to
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  • Hear, and he's led by the spirit into the wilderness and he's
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  • Tempted by the devil.
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  • "and after he fasted for forty days and nights, he was hungry,"
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  • No kidding.
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  • "and the tempter came to him and said, 'if you are the son of
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  • God, tell these stones to become bread.'"
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  • Now, satan saw jesus in his glory because he was a part of
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  • That heavenly community before he forfeited his place.
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  • On multiple places, i don't have time to take you to them, but in
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  • Multiple places in the gospels, demons cry out, "we know who you
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  • Are, jesus of nazareth," and they understood his authority.
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  • "have you come here to destroy us?"
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  • So, satan very well knows who jesus is, but jesus has fasted
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  • For 40 days and nights, he's hungry, he has the frailty that
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  • Comes with our human condition, and satan approaches him and
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  • Says, "if you're the son of god."
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  • That's not playing fair.
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  • I don't expect that.
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  • On a god assignment destined for so much, god's pleased with him,
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  • Led by the spirit, and satan himself comes to try to talk him
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  • Out of his place.
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  • Now, you know the answer.
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  • Jesus responds with scripture.
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  • Then verse 11 says, "the devil left him, and his angels came
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  • And attended him."
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  • This wasn't something casual, he didn't have just, like, a bad
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  • Thought, folks.
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  • He needed angelic support.
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  • There is a--if there's a real struggle for jesus, you better
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  • Believe there's a struggle over your destiny.
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  • We've got to begin to make more room in our hearts and our
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  • Imaginations for spiritual things.
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  • Jesus was very well of his assignment.
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  • He said he come, in luke 19, to seek and to save those which
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  • Were lost.
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  • You wanna live with an awareness of your assignment, that you're
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  • To be an ambassador for the kingdom of god, whether you're a
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  • Butcher, a baker, or a candlestick maker, that you have
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  • A home.
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  • You want to establish the authority of jesus of nazareth
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  • In your home.
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  • That you want your home to be a lighthouse, your kitchen table
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  • To be a messaging center.
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  • This isn't random stuff.
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  • You don't have to be a great influencer.
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  • You don't have to have stadiums and arenas filled with people,
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  • You have to have a heart focused on the lord and a determination
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  • To bring your faith forward into the midst of all the gifts and
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  • Talents and tools and opportunities that god has
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  • Given you.
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  • If you're known for professional achievement or for achievement
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  • In your hobby, or if you're known for something other than
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  • Your faith, why?
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  • I want you to be the best at whatever gifts god has given you
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  • Because they're gifts that have come from him, but i want you to
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  • Do that in a faith-forward way.
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  • That i'm the best whatever at whatever because of christ
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  • In me.
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  • That my life is a story of remarkable things and overcoming
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  • And perhaps achievements or accomplishments or whatever it
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  • May be, but it's because of christ in me.
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  • We've had this, again, our hierarchy's been a little wrong.
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  • We kind of give these polite nods to god, you know, in the
  • 00:12:43.121 --> 00:12:47.358
  • Shadows, but he's either front and center or he's not there.
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  • I read the list of ten, you know, no gods before me, so
  • 00:12:52.831 --> 00:12:56.668
  • Whatever you've put in front of him as the defining
  • 00:12:56.668 --> 00:12:58.770
  • Characteristic of your life is a false god and it's not gonna
  • 00:12:58.770 --> 00:13:01.973
  • Lead you to a great place.
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  • And we have some bad habits, maybe we'll come back and work
  • 00:13:05.443 --> 00:13:07.979
  • On that hierarchy, but i gotta wrap.
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  • I gave you a list, and we'll come back and do it another
  • 00:13:11.683 --> 00:13:13.952
  • Time, it's too important.
  • 00:13:13.952 --> 00:13:15.320
  • Jesus has a diverse and determined set of critics.
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  • I mean, i know we're kind of familiar with it, but i don't
  • 00:13:20.158 --> 00:13:22.527
  • Expect that.
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  • When i decide to honor the lord, i have to be--i'm surprised when
  • 00:13:23.895 --> 00:13:25.763
  • People get torqued about it.
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  • I'm trying to do the right thing, why could that
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  • Bother you?
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  • I don't know, but it does, why?
  • 00:13:30.335 --> 00:13:31.703
  • Because there's a spiritual problem.
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  • Why do you have opposition when you say that god created us male
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  • And female?
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  • That seems pretty straightforward to me, i grew up
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  • In a barn, but you will.
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  • When you say no, we really shouldn't kill our babies, that
  • 00:13:44.983 --> 00:13:47.485
  • Really shouldn't be, like, a point of great angst, or we
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  • Shouldn't mutilate our children when they're too young to fully
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  • Understand even what we're doing to them.
  • 00:13:53.858 --> 00:13:55.860
  • Those are pretty straightforward ideas, but they're tearing apart
  • 00:13:55.860 --> 00:13:58.930
  • The fabric of who we are.
  • 00:13:58.930 --> 00:14:00.698
  • We have a hard time saying don't put smut in the libraries for
  • 00:14:00.698 --> 00:14:03.968
  • Our small children, so how is that?
  • 00:14:03.968 --> 00:14:09.274
  • Because there's a spiritual conflict.
  • 00:14:09.274 --> 00:14:12.644
  • Well, we can't just imagine it to be some generic conflict, it
  • 00:14:12.644 --> 00:14:15.880
  • Means those things are gonna get pointed at us.
  • 00:14:15.880 --> 00:14:19.183
  • It gets very personal.
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  • It'll come to your kitchen table, because it's highly
  • 00:14:20.551 --> 00:14:23.755
  • Improbable that your family and your extended family are all
  • 00:14:23.755 --> 00:14:26.791
  • Gonna choose the lord at the same time in the same way, which
  • 00:14:26.791 --> 00:14:29.727
  • Means there'll be a dynamic there, a tension in that, that
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  • It will take love and a determination to overcome and a
  • 00:14:33.064 --> 00:14:35.733
  • Willingness to own the truth and not capitulate.
  • 00:14:35.733 --> 00:14:39.470
  • Jesus's critics were diverse and determined.
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  • It's easier to be critical than it is to be a part of
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  • The solution.
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  • Allen: we just finished the olympics, i didn't watch a lot,
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  • But i turned them on.
  • 00:15:58.950 --> 00:16:00.284
  • You know, those things where they have judges, it's all kind
  • 00:16:00.284 --> 00:16:01.786
  • Of subjective.
  • 00:16:01.786 --> 00:16:04.522
  • I can watch the olympics, and i'm critical of people that
  • 00:16:04.522 --> 00:16:06.858
  • Could do things i could never do on my best day, right?
  • 00:16:06.858 --> 00:16:10.895
  • They're doing--they're jumping off some mountain in their skis
  • 00:16:10.895 --> 00:16:14.432
  • And doing six-and-a-half flips with twelve twists and eating a
  • 00:16:14.432 --> 00:16:19.070
  • Bagel, and i get dizzy if i spin around three times, but i'll sit
  • 00:16:19.070 --> 00:16:26.010
  • There and go, "yeah, that wasn't very good."
  • 00:16:26.010 --> 00:16:29.547
  • It's not hard to be a critic, folks, it's much more difficult
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  • To be a part of the solution.
  • 00:16:34.352 --> 00:16:37.288
  • Well, jesus's critics, matthew 9, the pharisees said to jesus's
  • 00:16:37.288 --> 00:16:42.460
  • Disciples, "why does your teacher eat with tax collectors
  • 00:16:42.460 --> 00:16:44.595
  • And sinners?"
  • 00:16:44.595 --> 00:16:46.464
  • We don't agree with who your teacher eats with.
  • 00:16:46.464 --> 00:16:49.333
  • Your critics are getting pretty picky where now they're
  • 00:16:49.333 --> 00:16:52.637
  • Evaluating your dinner companions.
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  • Oh, come on.
  • 00:16:56.874 --> 00:16:59.243
  • And they felt so right that they're gonna come to his
  • 00:16:59.243 --> 00:17:01.612
  • Disciples and go, "well, you're not eating with the
  • 00:17:01.612 --> 00:17:03.581
  • Right folks."
  • 00:17:03.581 --> 00:17:05.450
  • Oh, bother, and it wasn't like an--this wasn't a one-off thing.
  • 00:17:05.450 --> 00:17:09.854
  • In luke 7, the pharisee invites jesus to his house, and this
  • 00:17:09.854 --> 00:17:13.658
  • Woman who's been very broken, and jesus has changed her life,
  • 00:17:13.658 --> 00:17:18.362
  • Begins to weep and wipe his feet with her hair and her tears, and
  • 00:17:18.362 --> 00:17:23.234
  • The pharisee says, "if you knew who this woman was you wouldn't
  • 00:17:23.234 --> 00:17:27.839
  • Allow her to touch you."
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  • I mean, their complaints are he doesn't have the right friends
  • 00:17:33.811 --> 00:17:37.782
  • And these wicked, ungodly people who are getting their lives
  • 00:17:37.782 --> 00:17:40.418
  • Straight like him and they're grateful for it.
  • 00:17:40.418 --> 00:17:42.286
  • Boy, that'd be awful.
  • 00:17:42.286 --> 00:17:46.958
  • Matthew 11 says jesus is speaking, this time he said john
  • 00:17:46.958 --> 00:17:50.128
  • Came and he didn't eat or drink and they said he had a demon.
  • 00:17:50.128 --> 00:17:53.231
  • Then i came and i ate and drank and they say i'm a glutton and
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  • A drunkard.
  • 00:17:55.466 --> 00:17:57.135
  • I'm a friend of tax collectors and sinners.
  • 00:17:57.135 --> 00:18:03.875
  • His critics were unrelenting.
  • 00:18:03.875 --> 00:18:06.310
  • In john 7 they said look into it and you'll find that a prophet
  • 00:18:06.310 --> 00:18:08.713
  • Doesn't come out of galilee.
  • 00:18:08.713 --> 00:18:10.047
  • He didn't have the right address.
  • 00:18:10.047 --> 00:18:13.284
  • For real, that's their complaint.
  • 00:18:13.351 --> 00:18:16.087
  • He lived in the wrong town, couldn't be the messiah, never
  • 00:18:16.087 --> 00:18:18.789
  • Mind raising the dead.
  • 00:18:18.789 --> 00:18:21.359
  • Yeah, we met that guy that was born blind that now can read the
  • 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:23.794
  • Eye chart, but jesus has the wrong address.
  • 00:18:23.794 --> 00:18:27.598
  • We still do this stuff.
  • 00:18:30.935 --> 00:18:34.205
  • We still do.
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  • You think you're gonna make your journey, that god's destiny for
  • 00:18:35.573 --> 00:18:37.608
  • You is gonna break forth without somebody offering something?
  • 00:18:37.608 --> 00:18:40.411
  • I knew them back in the day.
  • 00:18:40.411 --> 00:18:42.613
  • That was paul's challenge.
  • 00:18:42.613 --> 00:18:44.815
  • Angry, murderous, violent man, and then he meets jesus.
  • 00:18:44.815 --> 00:18:51.355
  • Think of all the people that knew paul before.
  • 00:18:51.355 --> 00:18:55.326
  • I'm not going to listen to him preach, he put people i cared
  • 00:18:55.326 --> 00:18:58.329
  • About in jail.
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  • Damascus road, mm-hmm, not listening to him.
  • 00:19:00.932 --> 00:19:06.637
  • You'll have some of that.
  • 00:19:06.637 --> 00:19:08.539
  • Don't know who you think you are.
  • 00:19:08.539 --> 00:19:11.342
  • I knew you when there wasn't any jesus in you.
  • 00:19:11.342 --> 00:19:15.146
  • I know, but he'll help you out the same way he's helped me.
  • 00:19:15.146 --> 00:19:21.886
  • We've got to have the courage to finish the race.
  • 00:19:21.886 --> 00:19:25.656
  • Everybody won't cheer.
  • 00:19:25.656 --> 00:19:27.792
  • I don't want you to be belligerent.
  • 00:19:27.792 --> 00:19:30.361
  • My suggestion is don't count your critics, weigh them.
  • 00:19:30.361 --> 00:19:34.899
  • Whose opinion are you listening to?
  • 00:19:34.899 --> 00:19:44.408
  • Jesus was aware of the hatred and the opposition.
  • 00:19:38.970 --> 00:19:48.312
  • I'll close with this, it's in mark 10.
  • 00:19:48.312 --> 00:19:52.483
  • I think it's a very important point because jesus was
  • 00:19:52.483 --> 00:19:55.119
  • Not naive.
  • 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:56.721
  • He wasn't uninformed.
  • 00:19:56.721 --> 00:19:58.990
  • And as you continue to say yes to the lord, my experience is
  • 00:19:58.990 --> 00:20:02.193
  • You'll become more aware of consequences.
  • 00:20:02.193 --> 00:20:05.329
  • When you're young it's almost like being a child, you don't
  • 00:20:05.329 --> 00:20:07.131
  • Really understand consequences.
  • 00:20:07.131 --> 00:20:09.700
  • You don't understand consequences about falling down
  • 00:20:09.700 --> 00:20:11.702
  • Because you bounce, right?
  • 00:20:11.702 --> 00:20:14.472
  • I love to watch the little kids in the lobby.
  • 00:20:14.472 --> 00:20:15.973
  • They take their foot and put it behind their head, pull it up in
  • 00:20:15.973 --> 00:20:19.443
  • Front of their face and look at it.
  • 00:20:19.443 --> 00:20:21.679
  • If i do that, you call 9-1-1.
  • 00:20:21.679 --> 00:20:25.650
  • There'll be medical assistants and pharmaceuticals in
  • 00:20:25.650 --> 00:20:27.752
  • My future.
  • 00:20:27.752 --> 00:20:31.622
  • But as you mature, you become more aware of--hopefully as you
  • 00:20:31.622 --> 00:20:36.394
  • Mature in the lord, of consequences and spiritual
  • 00:20:36.394 --> 00:20:39.797
  • Things, and you realize that some actions have reactions.
  • 00:20:39.797 --> 00:20:44.969
  • And jesus was not naive, he was challenging a political
  • 00:20:44.969 --> 00:20:49.273
  • Structure, one that had great power and influence.
  • 00:20:49.273 --> 00:20:52.543
  • And even though there were enormous masses of people who
  • 00:20:52.543 --> 00:20:54.845
  • Were his supporters, they weren't the ones that held the
  • 00:20:54.845 --> 00:20:57.315
  • Keys to power, and in mark 10 you get a little window
  • 00:20:57.315 --> 00:21:01.452
  • Into this.
  • 00:21:01.452 --> 00:21:02.820
  • He said we're going up to jerusalem, he's talking to his
  • 00:21:02.820 --> 00:21:04.322
  • Friends, and he said, "the son of man will be betrayed to the
  • 00:21:04.322 --> 00:21:06.057
  • Chief priest and the teachers of the law.
  • 00:21:06.057 --> 00:21:08.993
  • And they'll condemn him to death and will hand him over to
  • 00:21:08.993 --> 00:21:10.961
  • The gentiles."
  • 00:21:10.961 --> 00:21:13.698
  • They'll hand him over to the gentiles, please note, to the
  • 00:21:13.698 --> 00:21:16.500
  • Non-jews, "who will mock him, spit on him, flog him, and kill
  • 00:21:16.500 --> 00:21:21.072
  • Him, and three days later he will rise."
  • 00:21:21.072 --> 00:21:25.276
  • He said that's what's gonna happen to me when i get to
  • 00:21:25.276 --> 00:21:27.912
  • Jerusalem, but we're going, we're going.
  • 00:21:27.912 --> 00:21:34.018
  • And i wanna tell you straight up, if you decide to give your
  • 00:21:34.018 --> 00:21:36.721
  • Life to the lord without reservation and to honor him in
  • 00:21:36.721 --> 00:21:39.023
  • Your heart, you'll face challenges, but god will bring
  • 00:21:39.023 --> 00:21:42.560
  • You through.
  • 00:21:42.560 --> 00:21:44.295
  • He will help you overcome.
  • 00:21:44.295 --> 00:21:46.797
  • He is faithful.
  • 00:21:46.797 --> 00:21:49.433
  • We want to finish this race.
  • 00:21:49.433 --> 00:21:52.403
  • And i would say to you what mordecai said to esther, if you
  • 00:21:52.403 --> 00:21:55.106
  • Think you can hide in the shadows and stay unengaged, god
  • 00:21:55.106 --> 00:21:59.377
  • Will still accomplish his purposes but you will forfeit
  • 00:21:59.377 --> 00:22:01.746
  • Your opportunity to have been a part of that great unfolding
  • 00:22:01.746 --> 00:22:04.715
  • Story of the kingdom of god.
  • 00:22:04.715 --> 00:22:07.651
  • I don't believe you'll--you may regret in a moment identifying
  • 00:22:07.651 --> 00:22:11.522
  • With the lord because there'll be some pressure for it, but in
  • 00:22:11.522 --> 00:22:14.959
  • My life to date, i have to say i'm grateful for every place
  • 00:22:14.959 --> 00:22:19.130
  • I've had the courage to say yes to the lord, and it still to
  • 00:22:19.130 --> 00:22:23.167
  • This day gives me a determination to say yes for
  • 00:22:23.167 --> 00:22:25.903
  • What's ahead of me now.
  • 00:22:25.903 --> 00:22:28.539
  • And i know you've already accepted your assignments, but
  • 00:22:28.539 --> 00:22:31.308
  • Folks, let's finish this race.
  • 00:22:31.308 --> 00:22:33.844
  • Let's run it well.
  • 00:22:33.844 --> 00:22:36.380
  • Can we do that?
  • 00:22:36.380 --> 00:22:41.819
  • I was never very committed to track.
  • 00:22:41.819 --> 00:22:43.421
  • The only times i was involved is i was trying to get on another
  • 00:22:43.421 --> 00:22:45.756
  • Team, amen.
  • 00:22:45.756 --> 00:22:50.828
  • But i learned something, at the starting line we all look
  • 00:22:50.828 --> 00:22:53.063
  • Good, right?
  • 00:22:53.063 --> 00:22:55.366
  • Maybe you got new shoes, new little shorts, you got a little
  • 00:22:55.366 --> 00:22:57.535
  • Set, you know, and some of you even know how to stretch and be
  • 00:22:57.535 --> 00:23:01.405
  • Cute when you stretch.
  • 00:23:01.405 --> 00:23:02.773
  • I never got that, but at the end of the race, i mean, if you
  • 00:23:02.773 --> 00:23:08.078
  • Really ran, if you really gave everything you had, when you get
  • 00:23:08.078 --> 00:23:11.015
  • To the end of the race, you don't look good.
  • 00:23:11.015 --> 00:23:13.584
  • Sometimes you kind of throw yourself over the finish line,
  • 00:23:13.584 --> 00:23:15.386
  • You collapse on the ground, you're going [gasping for air].
  • 00:23:15.386 --> 00:23:18.055
  • It's not a very dignified position.
  • 00:23:18.055 --> 00:23:20.925
  • Well, your hair is a mess, you can't breathe, you're like, "i
  • 00:23:20.925 --> 00:23:23.627
  • Should have trained more, i'm so sorry."
  • 00:23:23.627 --> 00:23:26.831
  • It's an endurance race, you know, i mean, it's just
  • 00:23:26.831 --> 00:23:29.266
  • Not pretty.
  • 00:23:29.266 --> 00:23:31.202
  • We're not trying to be pretty, we want to be faithful.
  • 00:23:31.202 --> 00:23:35.005
  • I wanna pray for you that nobody gives up.
  • 00:23:35.005 --> 00:23:39.443
  • If you're in the midst of a circumstance where you have to
  • 00:23:39.443 --> 00:23:41.212
  • Overcome, god is faithful.
  • 00:23:41.212 --> 00:23:44.048
  • You may not like the circumstance.
  • 00:23:44.048 --> 00:23:46.283
  • You may say this isn't what i gave birth to children to have
  • 00:23:46.283 --> 00:23:50.788
  • To be engaged with or i don't like the heartbreak that's come
  • 00:23:50.788 --> 00:23:56.794
  • To my life.
  • 00:23:56.794 --> 00:23:59.363
  • None of us gets through without the pressures, but god knows how
  • 00:23:59.363 --> 00:24:03.901
  • To deliver his people, and i want to invite you to be
  • 00:24:03.901 --> 00:24:07.471
  • An overcomer.
  • 00:24:07.471 --> 00:24:08.806
  • Don't give in. don't grow weary.
  • 00:24:08.806 --> 00:24:14.044
  • That's what easter's all about, that life is greater than death,
  • 00:24:14.044 --> 00:24:19.116
  • That hope triumphs over despair, that evil is defeated, that even
  • 00:24:19.116 --> 00:24:24.855
  • Death is swallowed up in jesus's victory.
  • 00:24:24.855 --> 00:24:28.425
  • Why don't you stand? i wanna close with a prayer.
  • 00:24:28.425 --> 00:24:35.099
  • Why don't you take somebody's hand?
  • 00:24:35.099 --> 00:24:38.235
  • You don't have to make a circle all the way around the room, i
  • 00:24:38.235 --> 00:24:40.104
  • Just would prefer you not be alone unless you just wanna be.
  • 00:24:40.104 --> 00:24:44.441
  • Maybe you better introduce yourself if you don't know the
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  • Person whose hands you've got.
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  • No, i meant that.
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  • If they won't tell you their name, turn loose, okay.
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  • Father, thank you, thank you for your word and its truth.
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  • Lord jesus, thank you for your faithfulness, that you completed
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  • Your course, for the races that you've run and those that are
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  • Still ahead.
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  • Lord, i pray for each one of us, that we would be faithful to the
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  • Completion, lord, of the season we're in, the race that we see
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  • Right now.
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  • Will we be faithful in that place?
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  • That we not choose the easier way or the ungodly way or the
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  • Way that seems simpler.
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  • May we choose your best.
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  • I pray for those that have great challenges, and lord, i pray
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  • That you will give them supernatural understanding.
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  • Give them insight beyond their years and beyond
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  • Their experience.
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  • Holy spirit, help us.
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  • Bring to our minds those things we need to know about jesus so
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  • That we might have all the freedom he intends for us
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  • To have.
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  • Peace in our minds and hope in our soul and strength in
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  • Our bodies.
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  • We praise you for it. i thank you for it.
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  • In jesus's name, amen. hallelujah, god bless you.
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  • Don't forget your mugs.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: i suspect we've all heard the line that leadership is
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  • About influence.
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  • Well, i have a question for you.
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  • What do you lead with?
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  • What is the basis of your influence?
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  • Is it your appearance, your education, your professional
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  • Expertise, your professional accomplishments, your athletic
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  • Ability, your family?
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  • What is the point of influence that you use most frequently?
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  • Well, i've written a book, the title is gonna give away where
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  • I'm headed, it's "lead with faith."
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  • I think it's time that all of us begin to use our faith as an
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  • Influence in the world where we find ourselves.
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  • We're reluctant to do that.
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  • We typically have more confidence in our education or
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  • Our family system or our life experience.
  • 00:26:51.635 --> 00:26:54.171
  • We feel a little uncertain to lead with faith.
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  • The point of this book is to give you the tools to take your
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  • Faith out of a church setting and bring it into
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  • The marketplace.
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  • If we will lead with faith, i believe god will help us make an
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  • Impact in this generation.
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  • Go to allenjackson.com and get your copy today.
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  • ♪♪♪
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